Betty Adcock is featured poet at Nâzim Hikmet Festival honoring Russian poet Anna Akhmatova

The Seventh Annual Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Festival will be held on April 26, 2015 from 1-6 p.m. at the Page-Walker Art and History Center in Cary, North Carolina. The Festival is free and open to the public.

This year, the Festival honors Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, and her poetry. Speakers will be Stanislav Shvabrin, Assistant Professor and Irene Masing-Delic, Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Betty Adcock is the invited poet for the Festival.  The winners of the annual poetry competition, a major component of the Festival, have also been invited to read their poems during the Festival. Their poems will be published in the Festival book and on the Festival website.

As many as a thousand entries are received each year. The 2015 winners, in alphabetical order, are Leila Chatti, North Carolina; Lois Harrod, New Jersey; Mimi Herman, North Carolina; Emily Jaeger, Massachusetts; Edison Jennings, Virginia; Anne Whitehouse, New York; and Andy Young, Louisiana. Honorable Mentions: Jane K. Andrews, North Carolina; Mary E. Parker, North Carolina; and Eric M. Saye, Georgia.

Judges for the competition were Joseph Bathanti, Professor, Appalachian State University; Greg Dawes, Distinguished Professor, NC State